Small vote manipulations can swing elections

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 43-45

  Di Franco, Anthony ^a   Petro, Andrew ^a   Shear, Emmett ^a   Vladimirov, Vladimir ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BALLOTS; DIRECT-RECORDING ELECTRONIC (DRE) TECHNOLOGY; E-VOTING MACHINES; ELECTIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; RELIABILITY; SECURITY OF DATA; VOTING MACHINES;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EID: 11844283282     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1022594.1022621     Document Type: Review

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